How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
SOPHOCLESI have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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